Missing certificates

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

I was trying to run a simple fetch from python using
         url = 'https://raw.github.com/Itseez/opencv/master/samples/c/fruits.jpg'
         filedata = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

This failed:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "./edge.py", line 36, in <module>
     filedata = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen
     return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
     response = self._open(req, data)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
     '_open', req)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
     result = func(*args)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1240, in https_open
     context=self._context)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open
     raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)>

I can see that it was looking for some certificates in /usr/lib/ssl/certs
but that directory is missing.

Anyone know what I might be missing (or have misconfigured)?

Thanks

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